Things Brits think nothing of but considered rude to other countries?


Shoes in the house is a weird one. I'd never thought about it until meeting my wife who is Polish and it's unheard of over there. It's mental that people are alright with you walking outside treading on all kinds of shite and then walking it into the house. It's proper rank but normalised to the point that we have never thought about it.
this^^^ its not just rude its absolutely gopping behaviour
 
Shoes in the house is a weird one. I'd never thought about it until meeting my wife who is Polish and it's unheard of over there. It's mental that people are alright with you walking outside treading on all kinds of shite and then walking it into the house. It's proper rank but normalised to the point that we have never thought about it.
it does lead to loads of shoes by the door....my polish in laws always provide slippers for me but im happy in my socks ....makes the wooden stairs treacherous mind
We have a no shoes in the house policy.

Dog shit, hockle, spew and all other stuff I don’t want dragging into my house from the outside.
🤢
 
I would never drag in the dirt from the outside into someone's house. Don't understand why people think its ok to just walk in with shoes on :S

Thinking about when I go to my Mam's or she comes here, if it's just for a quick visit we leave shoes on but we take them off if it's a long visit. I've no idea why but we just do!

If I go somewhere else, I'll ask when I go in as some don't mind them left on but others prefer them off.
 
Sure its offensive to talk on your phone on trains in Japan

Its frowned upon. When i lived there it was rude even in public. People would stop dead in street, crouch down to answer phone as if they were hiding it from you and you end up leap frogging them so as not to trample them
 
Shoes in the house is a weird one. I'd never thought about it until meeting my wife who is Polish and it's unheard of over there. It's mental that people are alright with you walking outside treading on all kinds of shite and then walking it into the house. It's proper rank but normalised to the point that we have never thought about it.
Are you mad? Everyone takes their shoes off in the house unless you’re a scummer.
Thinking about when I go to my Mam's or she comes here, if it's just for a quick visit we leave shoes on but we take them off if it's a long visit. I've no idea why but we just do!

If I go somewhere else, I'll ask when I go in as some don't mind them left on but others prefer them off.
You have to ask 😳
 
Its frowned upon. When i lived there it was rude even in public. People would stop dead in street, crouch down to answer phone as if they were hiding it from you and you end up leap frogging them so as not to trample them
But funnily enough they didnt mind using them videoing my granddaughter on the Xmas night train to Lap Land from Helsinki . She did look very cute and typified the childhood experience in her Frozen gear probably no harm meant but haway ..they also seem to have a nasty habit of not moving left or right to pass you but just like stopping dead for you to choose ...weird .
 
Dad worked at Cole’s Cranes in the 70s. Came home one night and told me about some Japanese visitors they had. Coles served them Japanese and traditional english dishes at lunchtime in the canteen, curry (they thought that was traditional Japanese at the time) and spotted dick with custard. Visitors poured the spotted dick and custard onto the curry and proceeded to wolf it down.
 

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